the study of the implementation of It in health-care organizations is an important new application area for information systems (IS) research that involves the business value and effects of emerging technology investments [12, 19]. In the second paper of this Special Section, “an Empirical Investigation of the Value of Integrating Enter- prise Information Systems: the case of Medical Imaging Informatics,” Moshe ayal and abraham Seidmann report on a longitudinal study they conducted at viahealth/ rochester General hospital in rochester, New York. the hospital deployed new diag- nostic imaging and archiving systems that integrated with the organization’s ongoing efforts to deploy electronic medical records to support the care of its patients. the new technologies included the implementation of a radiology information system (rIS) and a picture archiving and communication system (PacS). the authors use empirical analysis methods for estimating the business value of rIS/PacS in the health-care business process context based on the measurement of related financial revenues, clini- cal operating process lead times, and subjective satisfaction levels by the clinical staff and referring physicians. the authors document a rapid learning rate for the systems, with the associated outcome of an immediate and significant clinical process lead time improvement immediately after the systems were deployed to achieve integration with rochester General hospital’s electronic medical record system. they also measure the satisfaction level of referring physicians who used the full spectrum of rIS/PacS functionalities at rochester General hospital or at their own clinics; the results show higher than the average level of satisfaction for the referring physicians.